a
AX
ITA TRIE
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PULLETS FOR .LAX-
ING.
The only absolutely sure way of
making selection for breeding stock
is by means of the data obtained from
the use of trap nests. Only investi
gators and an occasional poultryman,
however, can afford the equipment
and the expense involved in operat
ing trap neats, but every poultryman
can, by olosely observing his young |
stock during the autumn, select the
pullets that are commencing or pre-
paring to lay, and secure for the next
seusoh’'s breeding a pen of birds that
have the function of egg production |
#0 strongly developed that they give
evidence of it by its early exerocise.
Ag evidence of the value of early lay-
ing pullets, attention is called to the
work performed by twenty-nine April
hatched pullets that were selected
from among their sisters In August |
and September, when they showed
that they were laying or about to be-
gin laying. They were not selected
because of form or type as indicating
egg production, but they were either
just picked up as they were found on
the nests or taken because their
combs were red or because they tag-
ged the attendant around and prated
in the everyday hen langage about
the work they were soon going to
do. They were carried to the laying
house, marked with bands, and given
access to trap nests. Four of the |
twenty-nine died within the year. The |
smallest layer of the remaining]
twenty- five iald 137 eggs the first lay-|
Tear; al ghteen laid more than 160
eggs: and eight over 200 eggs, and |
the average of the flock for the
twelve months ending August 30,
1905, was 180 eggs. This average was
much hizher than that of all the pul
Jets carried that vear, and the flock
contained no poor layers, but a phe.
pomenal number of high layers The |
high average of the flock and the!
out ths advantage ‘of this methog of
large proportion of good layers point |
selection when the use of trap nests,
or other egually reliable methods of
selection, is not practicable — Bulle
tin of Maine Agricultural Station
ing
FEEDING
berty during
espe
Whera fowls are al
the greater part of the year,
ly it they are on good land, it will be
found that feed a day is suffi-
clent, when in the colder months it
may be desirable to give a morning |
feed also, but not more than hall as.
much as the birds will consume. Bf!
s0 doing we insure that théy get a|
morning feed, and then everything is |
eaten up clean, and it will be found |
that very soon afterward they are
scouring everywhere with the objset
of obtaining more. During the
song when growth is abundant, even
this is not required, and it will be |
quite enough to give them an after
noon feed of corn. Where birds are |
in confinement that would not be suffi
alent: but under these circumstances
it i18 essential that they should not
have ton much. The recommendation |
to give just what thev will eat up|
readily is undonbtecly the best
I am no! now disrussing the ques-
tion of the giving of what is known |
ag “dry mash” which is kept con-|
stantly before the Sirds because in
this case the food Is not in a form |
which tempts them, and | believe it is |
better to keep food always before the |
birds in su-h a form than to give,
great dos:s and to leave it lying |
about. It should, howev be taken |
into account that where birds are!
kept in confinement, the seratching.
yielded the great |
ial
one
gag.
#hed principle has
est results, simply owing to the fact
hat the birds are mae to work for
their food.— Correspondent of The
Country Gentleman.
PREPARE FOR BAD WEATHER
Have everything in readiness for
Pad weather It is liable to set in at
any time, and should "not find the
poultryman unprepared. Cold rains |
are liable to result in rheumatism or!
eolds and roup unless the fowls are
properly housed and well cared for |
in good, dry quarters |
The scratching shed or pen Is al
valuable adjunct to every poultry !
Bouse for the reason that fowls must |
have natural exercise, especially In
the winter time, In order for thom to
keep In the most thrifty and profit-
shle condition. Use plenty of #iraw
for scrat-uing material and keep the
fowla busy,
Careful students of the poultry bush
mesa estimate that if ‘the farmers of
this country would discard the scrubs
and use only pure breeds of papitry
there would be an increase of 100 per
sent. In. the value of the American
pomtitry crop. Every farmer who still
elings to the scrubs should make a
personal application of that statement.
The sooner the poultry raiser se
eggs the more certain will be his pro
dts from the egg supply. Each year
those that lay the nicest eggs should
be rotained for use another yéar, and
those that do’ not come up to the
standard should be rejected. —Epito-
mist.
—————
NOTES,
Two purts lard and one part turn
if the afflicted bird is discovered in
time and ile remedy given promptly,
Ducks intended for breeding should
they can have plenty of range and
swimming water.
It a solution of some coal tar disin-
fectant is used about the poultry
house frequently disease is not likely
to appear and insect enemies will not
worry the birds to any extent,
Shrewd poultry buyers of good
breeding stock are learning that the
time to buy breeders is in the fall.
Then you can get the pick of large
flocks. "hen you can buy while .ae
raising and keeping the birds.
If the hens have no place where they
can get to dry earth in which to
wallow, a broad, shallow box of dust
or gifted coal ashes should be kept in
the house to furnish a wallowing
place. Never use wood ashes as they
will make the plumage rough and take
If yarded fowls show a large per
cent. of soft shelled eggs, give them
free range every day. If it's only an
hour before sunset it will soon stop
soft shelled eggs and
fertility as well
GRAZING FOR GEESE.
The goose is not commonly regard
ed as a cousin to the cow, yet one is
about as persistent a grazer as the
other. There are farmers who won't |
turn geese into a mesdow
they
a sweep the pasture
spoiled for cattle.
An English authority says that
geese do not eat an excessive quan-
goslings are
killed oft the grass at the green stage
are kept till after harvest and
the stubble. As for the
that it is
of
the same writer sayg that
destroy mainly the tuberous
of the ranunculus, a weed
which could well be spared.
Nowadays in England the green
the gosling,
is more generally esteemel than the
is perhaps more sentimental than ac-
The poultererg tell us that gos
lings are in season from April to Oc
but from the point of view of
English producer it must be ad:
mitted that a home-rearod gosling of
satisfying proportions is a compara
rara avis in the earlier months
that from July to October would
accuratelr deseribe the English
The Que I
BEGG EXAMINER
incubation of ducks
eggs is a thriving industry in some
China, more particularly in
Canton, where a large and ready mar
} encourages the business The
first thing «to be done is to secure
suitable eggs, and this is done by men
who devote themselves entirely to
the t4sk during the summer months,
iner squats on the ground,
up to the light
nudges its suitabil
the state of the shell and the
the
and
more
BOAZON, ~w
CHINESE
The artificial
and holding the egg
ity bs
The leant appearance of cloudiness
but nevertheless only
from 8 per rent. to 10 per ‘cent. of the
are rejected: none over seven
days old are accepted’ The skilful
a day. The selected eggs are placed
in shallow saucer shaped
with a lid similarly shaped, and each
basket! is set upon 8 wickerwork cyl
inder over a stove in a darkened room
heated by charcoal bragiers.—Feath-
ered Life.
SHEDS FOR SCRATCHING.
Where corncribs
about two feet fre the ground, as
fo many of them do, and run east and
west by nailing boards to the posts
of the north east and west sides,
leaving the south side open,’ good
scratching sheds for pouitry can be
in
Nail a six-inch board on the south
gide at the Hottom to keep the litter
under the building Farmers’ Home
Journal
TURKEY VERY
Remember it's the
SENSITIVE.
wild, timid na
her nest
will be much better if thus managed.
If you are required to visit the tur.
covered, see that you leave them as
near the position as the hen left
them. Turkeys are very sensitive
and will not stand for any pilfering.--
Farmers’ Home Journal
The Conflict of Color.
Japan was permitted to push back
fussia, but has since been taught
that the citizenship of the world be.
tongs to the white man and to the
white man alone, and that the Japa
nese destiny les in Asia and no.
where else. Common Bonesty there
fore requires it to be now generally
acknowledged that If the Island Em
pire of the East soon develops an
intense policy In Eastern Asia-—and
succeeds in binding Eastern Asia in.
to one whole—one of the most pow.
erful contributory causes must be
sought in the attitude of the white
man on the American shores of the
Pacific, as well as that of the whites
on
iy
Ee
oro
—Cartoon
by Berrymauo, in the Washington Star.
remarkable
A8348-
sinate John Lb. Rockefeller was made
Cleveland, Ohlo.—A
incredible, but
by the New
correspondent
The story seems
thorough investigation
American's
shows:
That Haiold Sawyer Smith, the
man who revealad the alloged plot, is
a mill owner of Minerva, Stark Coun-
ty, Ohio, a man of means and whose
responsibility is vouched for by Chief
of Police W. H. Smith, of Canton
That the police chiefs of several
Ohlo cities have (aken Mr. Smith's
story seriously.
That, according to Mr.
Rockefeller himself deci red his be-
lief in Mr. Smith's narration.
One Principal, Two Hirelings.
The alleged plotters are three In
number, so far as knowa, one prin
cipal and two hirelings Mr. Smith!
Smith, Mr.
tween the hirelings at Alliance on
to the man who hired them as “Bil
a man of money.
Mr. Smith, accompanied by
Stamberger, chief of the East Cleve-
land police, told the story of the al-
jeged plot to the master of the 5 Stand-
ard Oil in the Forest Hill liv
Guards about the estate were y A
and plans were made for what
pears to bs a hasty departure
Pocantico Hills
Mr. Rockefeller was scheduled
sneak that night at the banquet
the Men's Club of the Euclid Avenue
Baptist Church, known as Rockefel-
jer's church. He had accepted the
invitation only ast Friday
ied |
Ap-
for
pack for his intended departure for
the East.
Mra. Rockefeller, whone {liness has
delayed the usual Qctober start for
She is in better health than
for several months. When the party
of three--Mr. Rockefeller, Mrs.
Rockefeller avd the former's seccre-
tary-—bhoarded the private car Brook-
line at the East 105th street station
of the New York Contral Line at 3.45
o'clock this afternoon the little group
at the depot was half made un of de-
tectives in plain elothes The rest
of the Rockefeller party, contrary to
had been sent to the Union
station.
Dodges Camera at Depot.
Mr. Rockefeller alighted from his
motor car for a moment A photog
rapher aimed a camera at him, and
bs jumped into the auto and ordered
it kept moving down the street at a
swift pace until the train's arrival,
Meanwhile a police search is being
made for the men described by Mr,
He told the story first to the
Canton polices chief, was sent to Chief
Kohler, of Cleveland. and then to
Chief Stamberger, of East Cleveland,
who took him fo Forest Hill. His
story follows:
“1 was visiticg in Alllar2e Sunday.
About 8.45 p. m. 1 started for the
shureh to meet my brother. | walked
Chieago.-—In the hunting season
in
in 1907, 82,
and in 1908, 74. Wisconsin and
upper Michigan continue to furnish
the greatest number of victims,
Included in this year's fatal accle
soveral well known men,
Dr. John R. More, surgeon for the
killed at Ironwood, Mich. H. L.
John G. Hoetzel, a real estate man of
Milwaukee, was killed on a hunting
trip.
Several cases were reported where
themselves frightened by a return
fire. It is so generally known in the
Wisconsin woods that any person who
is fired upon by mistake for a deer
will try to shoot the careless marks-
“man that the hunters are careful to
make no mistake in what they are
shooting at. Each year, however,
Pallman Company Ocdered by Mex-
feo to Get Rid of Americans,
Mexico City. ~The Government has
notified the Pullman Company that it
must replace all of its American and
negro conduc and porters upon its
cars in Mexico with Mexicans as rap-
idly as possible.
Home time ago an order was fasnod
that all conductors and porters upon
cars of this company operated upon
latest order ot
h the
up a railroad track near the church
and stopped when I heard some one
talking In a dark shed. One volce
sald:
* ‘1 don’t ree why we came here
from Pittsburg. We might have
walted until to-morrow and gone to
Canton to meet Bill. We might as
well get our money for killing old
John D. We will get what is coming
to us, whether we kill him or kidnap
him. Bill and the other fellow have
plenty of money and are willing to
pay well for putting old Rockefeller
out of the way.’
“1 sneaked around to head the fel
lows off, to get 2 good look at them,
I stumbled as I was getting away, be-
cause it was dark. They saw me, but
I hurried along and headed them off
around the next block. I had a good
look at both of them. They recog
nized me and remarked that they had
I hurried slong
and paid no att: sution
“Monday ! went to Canton and told
s H, W. Smith I ex-
iand Monday,
sted that I tell
him Monday
the matter up with
in East Cleveland
Interested.
er insists
and Chief Smith ins
{ Chief Kohler i
He teok
sow
He was ~reatiy
“Stamberg
thal I accom
to tell John
iid not like
he insisted.
what 1 heard and
he belleved me
ain in Cleveland
identification in
! inde. 1 told Bim
ug this for principle and re-
when he offered to pay my ex-
veland 1am a
in Cie
did not come
d
Hin
fust what 1 heard. |
but cons
D
piled
D. i
¥
when
arresia wore
CARD
penses while
responsible man and
inary story for the
gain i would
except that my
anyway I
preferred to leave the matter in the
bands of the Canton police.”
Bears a Good Reputation,
Canton, Ohio Harold Sawyer
Smith bears a good reputation in Min-
erva and Canion. Here he {3 known
to several law vers aud physician who
vouch for his Integrity. He is a man
of family, the son-in-law of Edward
weli-known lumber dealer,
with whom he lives one and one-half
miles cast of Minsrva
William ¥. Smith,
Morgan Engineering
ance. is the “brother
ing Sunday. #e also has a brother-
Alliances, Montgomery Til
lett, proprietor of a shooting gallery.
Chief Smiib, of the Canton police,
com here
foreman in the
Works, iu Alll-
Smith was visit.
{
i
|
i
}
ing the truth. “He was recommended
to me by A. H. Elliott, un attorney of
this city. He told his story in a
straightforward manner. In detail
it has not varied since it was first re-
number of times. I am convinced he
is not drawing on his imagination.”
Smith returned to Canton full of
praise for Rockefeller. "He is one of
the finest men I ever had the pleasure
of meeting.” he said.
there is a new crop of city hunters,
over, and it is these hunters who fre-
quently cause the fatal accidents.
The majority of the victims were
FORME NIW
A double bill was
roof of the Hotel
with Mrs. Eva Frances
kins, of Syracuse,
BOCIETY.
enacted on the
Gotham yesterday,
Smith Wil
as leading lady In
both « performances Mrs. Wilkins
hus two distinctions. She can tell
what Lae weather ig going to be
after tomorrow, and she had an
ancestor in each one of the wars that
fought American soll.
hotel] yesterday she
urscd zlibly to a group of re-
of the new patriotic society
is going to form on tie strength
the distinction, and in be
times gave a limited weather
forecast from the clouds. Only lim-
ited, because, as she explained
scientists In Syracuse say 1 muysin't
away too much of my knowl
If you called a physician
been
the
on
Cp on roof
poriers
she
of
tween
1
iatter
mysteries of his would
you?”
“Just a little bit of a forecast,” the
reporters pleaded
Mrs, who is a tiny
in black, darted tothe edge
and took a peek at the
under her vell,
"Ob, I love my
er today,” she gurgled
“I sald yesterday it wouldn't
it hasn't rained. The
irean sald Increasing col
esterday and rain for
it was wrong But it is oft
During carnival
% faunal
profession,
Wilkins, Woman
ford more
coming back
rain to-
day, and
B
foray «
ar
' . % 131
tafay, and
en Wrong
‘ a v
in Syracuse |
wee
forecast the weather correctly every
1 bezan,
# ¢
“AS Sor
days
rposed
ves and
“In
my i and
iar sciences Bev
kinds of clouds
cumulus, and so on
mean rain or they may
wind or o
the
en
farm!
to tae
there
the
are cumulog ad
inds are fighting
tle, but there's no sig
rain tomorrow Rut
Mrs. Wilkins :
tient
our sk;
all up”
‘But abont your
some one reminded
Oh, ves Well,
en in Syracuse are
he Daughters of the
ition thought
societ) But
80 1 rin gnother
ily seven
who
he
there
Ot
women and six men in Syrad
eligible You
} the
Hn 860
are ste you must
American wars
gee what we can do
Dr. Wii
this after
formation of
Daughters of All
he will afliliate with
connected with a
to join So we'll
in New Yor
liam Osborne
noon talk over
the ‘American
Wars, io which
us.”
At thit moment Dr. M: Dowell
peared and Mrs. Wilkins put
hand affectionately on his arm
“Oh what good is going to descend
upon
world, as the the
efforts of
this man’
claimed.
Dr McDowell,
seem anxious to
the mew society. “1
abbott it”
reporters,
to hear about it. I am not connected
with it: please gay that If you want
to know about my new society,” he
sdded, “come to my office and I'll
on about "The United Nations of the
World." "—New York Tribune
HER GREAT DES
A little group of clud
talking the other day
work done by the women's clubs, es
pecially in the matier of sending out
the circulating lHbraries
“1 never realized
rick K. Bowes, “how much those lib
raries meant to women who live away
(Mey 1 oxnert
McDowell
to the
her
the result of
dear she
however,
identified wit}
know
bye
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Pennsylvania so voi
Wisconsin .... ....40
District of Colombia...
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TOIBIS «i. iiinnessan
Cotton Mills at Low Ebbee
"None in England on Pall Thue,
Manchester, England. -—In response
to a communication printed here, in
which there is recorded the eral
disbelief in the United States that the
cotton mills here are being put on
short time, and instancing in Suppor
thereof the large of the raw
material by the spinner, it is inted
as
out that this cannot be ci
- a
El no Rscurscrasmerune
& woman out on a racch in Orezon
when we were traveling through the
west. Bhe was a Boston woman, who
bad been sceustomed in her vouth to
all kinds of advantages, such as li
married she had gone onto this ranch
in the west, and while her children
were all little her husband died. She
had stared on, working hard to edu
cate her sons. When 1 saw her the
youngest was nearly through school
‘When. he gets through,’ she said,
‘they are going to take care of me
and I am going back to Boston, for
awhile, anyway. Rut I can’t imagine
what | should have done all these
vears If it hadn't been for these cir
cvlating libraries, They have been
All 1 had to read, snd I can't tell you
what a comfort they have been to
me. But It won't be more than two
years now before I can go back,’ and
she smiled quite radiantly, In spite
of the fact that most of her teeth
were gone. And what do you think
was her keenest anticipation in get:
ting back to civilization® What do
going to do? Books? Pletures? Sym.
A ht Ok Tale tenth ™e
“Herald,
CLEANLY BRETON GIRLS.
It was always a source of wonder
to me to see how scrupulously clean
were the caps and collars of the wo
men and girls even when they were
engaged in the dirty work about the
sardine canneries, and it was like
{ Wise a source of wonder that during
the fishing season they should have
any time in which to attend to their
laundry work. 1 do no know wheth
er in the coast towns L.: re are large
1mimbers professional Iasundresses
or whether each woman or girl ig her
own laundress on occasion, but [| do
i know that meets 8 surprising
number of washerwomen on the coun-
try and suburban roads and often
comes upon large parties of such wo
| men at work.
Washing iz done in the open alr,
on the of brooks and ponds,
sometimes under the cover of a shed
been erected by
of
one
edges
-~
{ which 1 hag probably
| the village or town, but more fre
{| quently under the sky. Bach womas
| kneels in a little threesided box re
sembling the ody of a child's wheel
barrow, and has 2s a washboard a
plece of flat stone between the box
and the water's edge. The actual
work of washing is aliowed to inter
fere but little with conversation, and
hence it often happens that one's
ears rather than one’s eyes first de
tect the presence of these parties. In
the wild mooriands and other places
where Other facilities are lacking
the washing may be carried on In
mere ditches, the women standing in
the water. —National Geographle
Magazine,
MISS SMYTH'S
Miss Ethel
man, bas composed a
and she has
formance
myth
OPERA
Smyth, an Englishwo
grand opera
been honored by its per
before the king. Mins
is a daughter of General
Smyth, one of the heroes of the In
dian mutiny Most of her studying
{ was done in Leipsic. There she met
Techalkowski, who in one of his let
ters, expressed this prophetic opin
fon “Miss Smyth is one of the few
women composers who may ser
reckoned among the workers
in this sphere of music” The first
of Miss compositions was
played in concert in 1890, and her op
era an interval of nine
teen The concert composition
New York Bun.
be
ously
Smyth's
comes after
Years
Was a serenade
SKIL. - AS SILVER WORKER
ely YOURE Woman
Lindon society, has de
as a worker
Leslie le, a
prominent in
veloped remarkable skill
in sliver One of her finest samples
of work a bazaar by
Queen Alexandra It is a double
wreath of silver foliage, wit the
stumn tints. Miss
erested in the art
silveremith's
was bought at
lnaveg shot with an
Melville became int
through a to a
shop, where was turned and
wrought in every possible way, even
finest wire. epgazed one
best si workers in Loa
has become as skillful
New York Press
SEVEN RU LES OF LIFE
Live ur peta rs if you wish to be in
good health! “Up bow many fights?
Onl: flight of seven steps. 1 will
{ deseribe them
First Step
fruits, beef
in moderate
meals a day.
Second Step—Breathe good alr day
| and night
Third Step—Exercise freely in the
open alr
Fourth Step—Retire early and rise
eqriy
{| Fifth Step—Wear flannel next yout
skin every day of the year and =o
dispose your dress that your limbe
shall be kept warm. Bathe frequent
iy.
Sixth Sten—Live In the sunshine
fet your bedroom be one which re
ceives a flood of light and spend your
{ days either out in the sunlight or in
‘a room which is well lighted.
| Seventh Step—Cultivate a cheer
fu! temper. Seek the society of jolly
peonle, heolutely refuse to worry,
and above all don't be afraid to
laugh. Live above. Sickness can not
craw! up there. Disease prowls
in the basement rarely does it get
“upstairs "Dr. F. G. Butler, in Ch}
cago Journal
visit
silver
to the She
the
don. and now
| as
of iver
her instructor.——
EO
one
Eat
mutton,
quantity,
wheat, oats, oora,
plainly cooked
and but two
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER.
The man who finds love too sagary
gweet will pine for a little wholesome
snap to the domestic atmosphere.
It woman elects to make her love
one continuous course of sellsacri
fice, to give In always and never as
sert herself, and to be overdemon
strative in her affection, man will ae
cept It-but he will prefer the society
of some woman of whom he is not
quite so sure, The moment a man
feels too sure of 8a woman he ceases
to make any effort to hold her.
Have you soem a child turm
~arelessly away from a box nf sweets
from which it has helped itself freely
and which it knew was still at its
command? That is exactly the way
men ard women feel about the love
hich coms 80 easily as to loss toa